Unsigned book: The Day of the Triffids. First American edition. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1951. Hardcover with dust jacket, 5.5 x 8, 222 pages. Book condition: VG+/VG-, with significant creasing to dust jacket, and a small hole to the spine. In Wyndham's post-apocalyptic novel, a plague of blindness befalls the entire world, allowing the rise of an aggressive plant species. An important early sci-fi work.